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José Alberto Mujica Cordano was born on 20 May 1935 in the neighbourhood of Paso de la Arena in the capital city of Montevideo to Demetrio Mujica and Lucy Cordano. [6] Demetrio was a descendant of a Spanish Basque family who arrived to Uruguay in 1842.
The presidency of José Mujica began on 1 March 2010 when he was inaugurated as the 40th constitutional president of Uruguay. Mujica, a member of Broad Front's Movement of Popular Participation, took office following his victory over the National Party's nominee Luis Alberto Lacalle in the second round of the 2009 Uruguayan general election, thus continuing another five years of leftist ...
El Pepe: A Supreme Life (Spanish: El Pepe, Una Vida Suprema) is a 2018 documentary film directed by the award-winning Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica and starring Uruguay's former president (and former guerrilla fighter) José Mujica. It is about Mujica's life and legacy. [2] [3]
José Mujica, a one-time guerrilla, prisoner and later president of Uruguay who has cemented himself as an icon of the Latin American left, maintains that he is a farmer and nature lover above all ...
Jose Mujica, Uruguay's former president and one of Latin America's best-known leaders, announced a cancer diagnosis on Monday that doctors say will be challenging to treat. Mujica, who turns 89 in ...
Mujica, 88, said he was diagnosed during a routine medical checkup last Friday. “This is obviously very complicated and doubly so in my case,” the ex-president who governed Uruguay from 2010 ...
On 26 November 2010, due to the absence of both President Mujica and Vice-President Danilo Astori, she became Acting President, making her the first woman to assume the Uruguay presidential powers and duties. This brief tenure as acting president lasted until 28 November 2010, when Vice President Astori returned to Uruguay.
If the world has an impoverished president, it may be Jose Mujica, the current head of state in Uruguay, the South American nation of some 3.3 million people that's about the size of Washington state.